Update 2015-01-12

The algorithm as it exists in HEAD is somewhat different from the below,
in ways that I'll describe (eventually) in an another post. In some ways, it's
closer to Fork-Join, but with important differences to support reentrancy,
share results of duplicate requests and adjust for the costs of distribution.

OSS and Commercial Grids

Grid computing has
always suffered the reputation of a buzzword that one suspects might
not actually mean anything, but it has become especially ill-defined
with the rise of open-source distributed computation frameworks like
Spark, Storm
and Grampa Hadoop. These extensively documented
systems don't need much …